page_title: Australia national rugby union team
section_title: Playing strip
hierarchical_section_title: Australia national rugby union team / Playing strip
caption_attribution_description: English: &#160;International match at Thomond Park, Limerick, between the "A" national rugby union teams of Ireland and Australia Français&#160;: &#160;Match international de rugby à XV entre les équipes nationales "A" de l'Irlande et de l'Australie au Thomond Park de Limerick, en Irlande Italiano: &#160;Incontro internazionale di rugby a 15 tra le nazionali "A" di Irlanda e Australia al Thomond Park di Limerick, Irlanda
context_page_description: The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team.
  Australia have competed in all eight Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. Australia beat England at Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France.
  The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship, along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations.
  More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: The Wallabies play in Australia's traditional sporting colours of green and gold. Before there was a national jersey in place, the Wallabies would play in the jersey of the state the game was being held.
  The Australian Coat of Arms would often replace the state logo on the jersey, and a variety of these colours were used in a number of matches in the early 1900s.
  In 1928 governing bodies agreed that "the Australian amateur representative colours of green and gold, should be adopted". The following year the All Blacks came to Australia, and the jersey worn was emerald green with the Australian Coat of Arms; with green socks with bars on the top. The jersey remained mainly the same, with a few variations, throughout the 1930s.
  The away jersey usually is green or white, although in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, the Wallabies wore in the match against Romania a green and gold hooped jersey, with green shorts and socks.
  Canterbury's design for Australia's 2007 World cup jersey was controversial, featuring a curved tan-coloured panel across the chest resembling the shape of a bra. This led the Sydney Morning Herald's chief rugby correspondent to include a satirical piece in his column comparing it to Kramer and Frank Costanza's infamous man bra from Seinfeld.
  In 2010, KooGa became the apparel sponsor. The first KooGa jersey for the Wallabies under KooGa was used from 2010 through to the conclusion of the 2012 season, however, a different set of shorts and socks were made for the 2012 season. A new kit designed by KooGa was revealed in 2013 for the series against the British and Irish Lions. BLK Sport, previously the Australian subdivision of KooGa, became the apparel sponsor after that tour, with the BLK logo replacing the KooGa logo on the kit for the 2013 Spring Tour.
  In October 2013, the ARU announced that Asics would be the apparel sponsor beginning in 2014.
  In the third 2017 Bledisloe Cup test, for the first time, the Wallabies played with an indigenous jersey.
  Notes
  Sponsored logos appear on jerseys for matches other than the Rugby World Cup where branding, except for logos of equipment manufacturers, is not allowed.
  BLK brand apparel was supplied for the 2013 end-of-year tour.
caption: An old Australian nation rugby union team strip used in the 2000s
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